From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJFAu-0002Bq-Bp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:27:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2EJR3AQ006472; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:27:03 GMT Received: from mail01.emarketsouth.com (mail01.emarketsouth.com [208.247.233.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2EJR2rv028289 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:27:02 GMT Received: (qmail 25566 invoked by uid 399); 14 Mar 2006 19:28:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO onyx) (64.192.54.4) by mail01.emarketsouth.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2006 19:28:41 -0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Feature Requests for 2006.1 From: solar To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1142354519.21388.12.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <1142354519.21388.12.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:27:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1142364420.27828.51.camel@onyx> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c3007367-9579-449e-9f15-71532f2f7102 X-Archives-Hash: 7158f79d23c3f03a51ad9fe1c1c2ac7e You cant really do a server profile so far nested within the default-linux profiles. The flags will be just wrong. Also a server is not something you should be switching profiles every 6 months. If you are serious about a server profile I'd suggest dropping what you are thinking now. Lets have a meeting (hardened + server + infra + releng ) folks and do it right together. On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:41 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Alright people, I'm starting up the feature requests for the 2006.1 > release. Some things to remember when making requests: > > - We don't control what is stable in the tree, so requests for specific > packages won't be useful to us. If you want a specific package added to > the release media, there are two steps required. First, the package > must be marked stable on any architecture which will be using the > package. Second, a bug should be filed requesting the package be added. > Please make sure that your request has not already been filed before > filing a new bug report. > - We don't control portage features. > - We don't control kernel versions, but we do control which *-sources we > use and also the configurations of those kernels. > > A few ideas on things you can request are: > > - New modules added to the release media > - New packages added to GRP/LiveCD/LiveDVD > - New media types (LiveDVD/netboot/*) > - Additional USE flags enabled/disabled by default > > I am currently working on a new set of profiles for 2006.1 on x86. As > you can tell, these profiles are a bit different from anything else that > we have done in the past, as it separates out into "desktop" and > "server" profiles. The "desktop" profile is very similar to what we > have always had on each release. The "server" profile is new, and has > none of the typical desktop USE flags enabled, making it ideal for > server usage. I plan on also creating some sort of "developer" profile > which will inherit from both "desktop" and "server" profiles, once > portage has support for multiple inheritance, so it might not make it > into the 2006.1 profiles. I am looking for suggestions for USE flags to > add to these two profiles, so feel free to make suggestions. Please > cite some reasoning for why you think each USE flag you recommend should > be either enabled or disabled. The profiles are at > profiles/default-linux/x86/dev/2006.1/desktop and > profiles/default-linux/x86/dev/2006.1/server for you to peruse. They > are completely functional profiles at this time. > -- solar Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list